Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-03-30

1 spoke to him; he made : sort Of grumbl,ng
water was brought; 4 horse d ctor came up
and sponged OF the mans face; Dr.. Savage or
DR.. Bergen came mp and pronounced the man
dead; Ididn't know the man; Jerry Merrill
came up and said: Il believe that's Mr.. Had
dock = the coat was buttoned up. about the
neck: I was on Pearl street when the shot was
fred; I had about fifty feet to go to Fourth,
and then it was just one block to the
body; I didn't stop, but went on
rapidly to the body; it was about 1920; saw
the wheel which was picked up; the cane was
picked up, little east OF the center OF the
crossing; / can identify the pulley.
Rev. G. c. Turner was the next witness
called, but as his testimony is OF no import
ance We do not give it,
Wesley Hitchner, Thomas Jarvis and John
McGregor give testimony similar. McGregor,s
testimony: ! worked at Merrill's livery stable
last August, and was there the night of the
murder; l was there when Haddock and Tnr-
ner got the rig; they got a covered buggy and
buckskin horse, aud said they were going to
Greenville; after they left l went away and
was zone q half hour; | don't remember see
ing the stable boy Hitchner after / got back;
the name Of G.. G. Turner was entered on the
stable book; I was there wren the rig came
back, and helped unbitch; Hadduck spoke 10
Jarvis; | kept on unbitching the horse, aud
saw Haddock go out the second time; l heard
the shot; il wasn't more than q quarter OF q
minute after he left; in q minute l went
to the door; l saw Haddock stumbling
in the street, and men running across
the vacant lot and mp the street; the
vacant lot on the northeast corner OF Water
and Fourth streets; there were men standing at
Dineen's corner when Haddoek drove %in-four
or five of them there; there were non. there
after the shooting when l looked; five or six
men were running across the vacant lot and
two or three up Water street; Haddock was q
little more than hal way across Wa er street;
he staggered and fell a coupled of tim 8 and fel
the last at Dineen's corner; he made a Nv
sort of noise; we went over to him; Ryan ct
there about the same time we did: ! went to
the barn and got some water; | saw Haddocks
cane, lying about the center OF the crossing.
Cross examin d by Argo: Haddock didn't
speak; the noise he made was indisnna; 1
don't see the shot fired.
No witness has yet been examined who saw
the shot tired, therefore we ON t giving some
of The witnesses evidence, as il is not mater
tally different from the foregoing.
FOURTH DAY.
The fourth day of this celebrated ease opens
with great interest and excitement. Son very
important testimony was AIKEN, among which
wa that Of an old man named Van Ingham,
who now states with considerable earnestness
that the form and carriage of one Of the men
passed his window on the run after the shots
were fired and proceeding from tla scene Of
the murder. 1t was John Arensdorf. This
bit Of direct testimony created a tiutter OF eX-
citement among the packed audience. The
cross examination OF this witness was un-
usually vigorous and a contradictory line of
evide &C was produced and clearly admitted
between former statements at the coroner's In
quest and the testimony before the grand jury.
Van Ingram is about sixty years OF age. AT
the time of the murder he lived on the west
side of the bridge, directly across the
east side Of which the shooting occurred.
Opposite his residence is a frame brewery
build jng, but between it and the creek Ii a
space of about eight feet front. This space
is used as a driveway along the side Of the
building and a little back from the center of
the brewery is an entrance of wide sliding
door-ways, which is used for receiving and
discharging beer barrels Across the bridge
from the east side ran Arensdorf and Peters,
the beer wagon driver. who is still missing.
Coming west towards the brewery and when
about at the west approach Of the bridge, the
two men as they passed within seventeen feet
o. the window out Of which Van Ingn am vas
looking, turned up this driveway leading to
the double doorway, Arensd RI in the lead
and turning his head from side to side over
his shoulders as he ran. His companion
Peters, the larger Of the two, came directly
after him and looking straight ahead they
passed into the side doorway. This is the
story of Van Ingham. The remainder of
the evidence introduced so far to-day cor
roborates this witness to the two men going
across the bridge, but the testimony of Mrs.
Eberhart, wife of the proprietor of the Column
bia House, in front of whose place the minis
ter was killed, does not agree with the story
of Van Ingham as to the number and speed.
She did not see them, but thinks from the
sound there must have been three men cross
the bridge, aud they were walking instead OF
running.
Another important bit of testimony was
given by John Etzsimmons, the first witness
called to-day. He was looking ont Of the Co.
lumbia House door when the shot was fired,
and through the darkness saw the assassin
commit the deed, but it was too dark to recog-
ME him further than to state that the color of
his pants was light The man who fred the
shot went toward the bridge. Fitzsimmons
described the shooting of Haddock with con-
siderable dramatic force and effect and says
when the man came out from the corner and
met Haddock he passed the latter about a foot
and then turned and shot him. There was no
scufle. The man that fred the shot walked
toward the Columbia House. Haddock stag
gered around quite a little bit. gurgled
and tell on his hands and knees
Witnesses examined this afternoon were
Willie Junk, son of q saloon keeper at whose
place the conspirators met before proceeding
TO the scene OF the killing; James Scollard,
street commissioner; Il q. Grady, city coun-
Gilman and Deputy United States Collector, and
L. p. Murphy, United States District Attorney
and, until the case came up in court, one of
the states counsel in the present case. The
testimony Of these witnesses related to the
meeting at Junk'ss saloon after the hack bear
ing four of the conspirators had returned from
the Greenville house in pursuit Of the buggy
containing Haddock and Turner. Scotland,
Grady and young Junk's testimony is to the
effect that Arensdorf, Treiber, Munchrath and
Leavitt composed the party in the hack and
( at this party left the saloon about fifteen
minutes before the shot was heard that killed
Haddock.
r. =. Murphy says he was being driven
home from the depot that night in hack.
The hack was stopped about a half block from
the scene Of the murder and he heard a con-
versation and, looking out of tho hack, saw
Fred Munchrath, jr, talking TO the driver;
Munchrath had a companion with him, but he
stood too ar away to be identified; Munchrath
looked nto the hack and Murphy spoke to
him; he was then driven home, two squares
beyond: twenty minutes later he heard OF the
shooting.
The hack driver of the Murphy carriage
was called, but the sheriff answ sre that he
was not in the city, therefore court was ad-
journed until Monday at 3 o'clock q. m.
An Alaskan's Valuable Testimonial.
Capt. Baker, who us commander of one